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Mathematics Programs That Make a Difference

AMS Recognizes Mathematics Programs That Make a Difference

The American Mathematical Society will highlight two programs each year that specifically:
  • aim to bring more persons from underrepresented minority backgrounds into some portion of the pipeline beginning at the undergraduate level and leading to an advanced degree in mathematics, or retain them in the pipeline;
  • have achieved documentable success in doing so; and
  • are replicable models.

    Please click on the citation year to see descriptions of the programs and links to their web sites.
2009:   Department of Mathematics, University of Mississippi (Ole Miss)
             Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University (NCSU)
 
2008:   Summer Undergraduate Mathematical Science Research Institute (SUMSRI)
             Miami University (Ohio)
 
             Summer Program in Research and Learning (Math SPIRAL)
             University of Maryland
 
2007 :  Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education (EDGE)
             Bryn Mawr College and Spelman College

             Mathematical Theoretical Biology Institute (MTBI)
             Arizona State University

2006 :  Summer Institute in Mathematics for Undergraduates (SIMU)
             Universidad de Puerto Rico, Humacao

             Graduate Program
             Department of Mathematics, University of Iowa
 

NOMINATION PROCESS: 
**** DEADLINE Extended through October 15, 2009****

Letters of nomination may be submitted by one or more individuals. Nomination of the writer's own institution or program is permitted.  The letter should address how the nominated program characterizes the three criteria listed above.  The letter of nomination should not exceed two pages, with supporting documentation not to exceed three more pages.  Up to three supporting letters may be included in addition to these five pages. 

Nominations for the 2009 recognition are no longer being accepted.  The deadline for 2010 nominations is September 1, 2009.  The non-winning nominations will automatically be reconsidered, without further updating, for the awards to be presented over the next two years. 

For more information about the nomination process, please contact Dr. Ellen Maycock, Associate Executive Director, AMS, at ejm@ams.org or 1- 800-321-4267, ext. 4101.

Send nominations to Dr. Maycock by email to ejm@ams.org or by postal mail to:

Programs That Make a Difference
c/o Dr. Ellen J. Maycock
American Mathematical Society
201 Charles Street
Providence, RI  02904